Dan Sommers wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 15:12:54 GMT,
> William Gill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>>I am using the % operator to create queries for a db app. It works fine
>>when exact strings, or numbers are used, but some queries need partial
>>matching that use the '%' as a wildcards. So for example the resultant
>>string should be 'WHERE name LIKE %smith%' (would match silversmith,
>>smithy, and smith). Is there any way to get something like
>
>
>> searchterm = 'smith'
>> sql += 'WHERE name LIKE %s' % searchterm
>
>
>>to return 'WHERE name LIKE %smith%' I have tried using escapes,
>>character codes for the % sign, and lots of other gyrations with no
>>success. The only thing that works is if I modify searchterm first:
>
>
>> searchterm = 'smith'
>> searchterm ='%'+'smith'+'%'
>> sql += 'WHERE name LIKE %s' % searchterm
>
>
>>Any Ideas?
>
>
> Let the DB-API do more work for you:
>
> cursor = connection.cursor( )
> sql = """SELECT column2, columns3 FROM table WHERE name LIKE %s"""
> values = ('%%%s%%' % searchterm,) # note that this is a tuple
> cursor.execute( sql, values )
>
> HTH,
> Dan
>
I can't tell you how many times I looked at the table of format codes
and missed this.
Thanks everyone!
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